Senate Roll Call 1119, 95th Congress · October 12, 1978
TO TABLE A KENNEDY AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR H.R. 5285, THE MEDICARE-MEDICAID ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM ACT. THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT BASICALLY EMBODIES THE ADMINISTRATION'S PROPOSAL FOR A PROGRAM OF HOSPITAL COST CONTAINMENT.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Medicare-Medicaid Administrative and Reimbursement Reform Act
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
How this vote is scored
Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Hospital cost containment does not directly expand or restrict healthcare coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:medicare,medicaid,hospital
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- TradeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Hospital cost containment is unrelated to trade policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (72)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (18)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Robert C. Byrd
- Clifford Philip Case
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (10)
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.Did not vote
- Richard Clarence ClarkDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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